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Again, the ten-year-old body contains the soul of a thirty-year-old, Zhang Chen doesn't know if he is a precocious wisdom or a monster, but Liu Aiping found that it is like a changed person, and her son Zhang Chen hardly has to worry about her, not only that, but it is even equivalent to half a master.

When I came home from the field in the morning, the food was already cooked in the pot, and when I came back from the field in the evening, the clothes that had been dried had been collected and sorted and folded, and there was already pig food in the pen, and there was also hot food in the pot.

Although the house is still crowded, it has been cleaned up, and even the glass translucent tiles on the roof have been scrubbed by Zhang Chen from the branches that stretched out behind the house, and the three earthen houses are also extraordinarily bright.

None of the children in the countryside know how to do some farm work, and it is not surprising to wash clothes and cook, but Zhang Chen really frightened Liu Aiping.

Before I knew it, there was only a few days left before the start of school in September, and although there was very little homework in primary school at this time, there was not much homework, let alone exams, not because the teacher did not assign it, but because the school was too poor to even afford homework and test papers.

But Zhang Chen still remembers that at this time, a six-day class a week (from this summer onwards) thunder can not move, it stands to reason that only Chinese and mathematics add up to two books, that is, the era when a pig can also be a school bully, his entire primary school career is still a painful experience of passing the exam, going home for fear of being beaten by Lao Tzu.

It wasn't until nearly a week after the start of school that Zhang Chen slowly adapted to the somewhat familiar but strange rhythm of this memory.

After returning home from school early, he walked unhurriedly around the low courtyard wall behind the school, and walked back along the gravel beach at the foot of the river, a few miles not far for a half-grown boy.

Zhang Chen still remembers the map he once saw in his mind, and if he looked down from the enlarged map, he would find that Baihe Village was surrounded by lakes on all three sides, except for the yellow sand road left in the east leading to the township.

A river embankment separates the lake from the Yangtze River, and when the Yangtze River flood peak was at its highest in 98, the embankment was blown open and discharged, and it was the flood of this year that plunged the old Zhang family into a 20-year debt repayment mud pit.

The cause of the incident starts with Zhang Chen's father Zhang Wenlin's return home in ninety-five years, the old Zhang family has been working outside for nearly ten years, and they haven't earned much money.

It wasn't until after the project was contracted that tens of thousands of hard-earned money were saved, and in the early 90s, not to mention the Zhangwan Brigade, even in the huge Baihe Village, it could be regarded as a preliminary fortune.

The family property of tens of thousands of yuan is tantamount to a well-known small rich family after 20 years, but the good times did not last long, because of his kind temperament, he was cheated by his own brother and lost a lot of money, not to mention the previous earnings, and owed a lot of workers' wages, Zhang Wenlin could only be forced to return to his hometown.

In the following years, he has been knocking and beating in Baichong County, and he has saved tens of thousands of yuan.

After returning to Zhangwan again, Zhang Wenlin worked hard to engage in aquaculture, and began to plan for the Spring Festival of 95 years, and contracted Baihu Bay, which was owned by the township.

Baihu Bay is the largest reservoir in the Zhangwan Brigade, because the lake on the edge of Zhangwan is V-shaped, a dam seals the V-shaped mouth, creating an area of nearly 1,000 acres of water.

The deepest part of this big water pool is only three or five meters, coupled with the shallow mud, there are a lot of aquatic plants and water chestnut water chestnut and even lotus root, which is very suitable for breeding.

In the early years, when the large collective was divided, the dam was filled up and carved out large and small lotus ponds, and later the water gradually turned into a shallow lake, which is several meters deep.

Later, no one asked for nearly ten years, and once the Yangtze River basin was flooded, it was submerged, and many adult old fish and turtles slowly accumulated in the water.

Zhang Wenlin spent less than 2,000 yuan in 95 to contract one of the ponds, and invested the rest of the money to buy a lot of fish fry.

As the first person to eat crabs, Zhang Wenlin completely revealed the secrets of Baihu Bay when he fished in 96, which is a later story.

At the beginning of 97 years, because the market in the first two years was very good, Lao Zhang boldly invested all the nearly 100,000 yuan with interest plus the nearly 100,000 yuan borrowed from his mother Aiping's mother's brother, and some people in the village came forward to borrow nearly 100,000 yuan of profit.

But losing money is not just a matter of debt, 100,000 yuan can build five three-room two-story buildings in 97, let alone make money.

However, the flood in the Yangtze River basin in 98 years, which was rare in a century, not only submerged the fish pond of the old Zhang family, but also burned almost all the wealth of the old Zhang family.

When they were developed, their smiling friends and buddies hid their faces and retreated one by one when they were in trouble, and they didn't even want to have anything to do with the Zhang family, but the profit of 100,000 yuan increased several times around 2000.

Zhang Chen finished high school to college with the help of Liu Aiping's brothers and sisters, while the old Zhang family lived in debt all their lives, and the profits repaid the debts for nearly 20 years.

Looking at the ponds in front of him that were divided into staggered and different sizes, Zhang Chen only felt that a thousand things suddenly came to his heart, and some were blocked, this place would not only achieve the glory of the old Zhang family, but also make the old Zhang family fall into the abyss.

Walking slowly along the beach on the river bank for nearly an hour, the smoke was already wafting from the distance behind the three earthen houses at home, Zhang Chen suddenly smiled and ran away.

Do it all over again, and there's still time for anything.

"We can't let that rare flood destroy Lao Zhang's family again!"

Zhang Chen muttered slowly in his heart.

"Mom, has my dad come back these days?"

At dinner, Zhang Chen lowered his head and asked casually, Liu Aiping put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and counted his fingers before saying:

"You don't care if he can't come back, you just study hard, and if you do well in the exam at the end of the year, you will ask your father to give you five yuan, and if you don't do well in the exam, you won't study in junior high school."

Five bucks!

Listening to it in his ears, Zhang Chen felt a little strange touched and some unspeakable heartache, the country, how rich the poor families of the country are, and it is extremely difficult to imagine what kind of life it is without experiencing the poor rural life in China in the 90s.

Liu Aiping didn't notice the look in his son's eyes.

There are few fields, and there is not much farm work at home, although Liu Aiping is not strong, he is a good hand at work, so Lao Zhang's family actually did not have a busy season before.

After Zhang Chen gets out of school on weekdays, most of the time he hides at home and flips through the old books saved by those old men, all of which are Jin Yong Gulong's martial arts novels, and even some textbooks.

But this year, because the family contracted a fish pond, almost all the housework fell on Liu Aiping, and the days that were not tense became busy, Zhang Wenlin stayed in the small shed in Baihu Bay day and night, except for Liu Ai who usually sent some rice vegetables, rarely went home.

At this time, there are a lot of anglers and private fishing nets who steal fish, and a slight carelessness can lose 180 yuan or more in one night, so Zhang Chen knows that his father rarely comes back a few times, let alone care about his studies, except for the year-end inspection, he almost never asks how he did in the exam, which naturally caused him to make soy sauce throughout elementary school.

This soy sauce lasted for many years, and it wasn't until something happened in his family that he slowly became silent, and his grades improved by leaps and bounds until he was admitted to a prestigious school and drank foreign ink.

After the meal, Zhang Chen refused the invitation of a few playmates to play marbles, and nested quietly in the back room alone, and then looked at the report cards and books of the past four years in the not bright daylight, and couldn't help but want to laugh in his heart.

The familiar red crosses and circles were engraved throughout his childhood, and in his memory, it seemed that he had never been praised for his studies.

"The children of poor families are in charge of the house early, but they just miss their studies, even geniuses have time to nap."

Zhang Chen could only think like this in his heart. (The novel "The Richest Man in the Country" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "dd" and follow, hurry up! )